Please, come home and practice the piano

Li An's left pocket trembled. He took out Chen Xuan's mobile phone and found a WeChat message.

Sister Qiongqiong: Come on, Xiaoxuan!

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The drawing method for this round of competition adopts the electronic drawing method common in international music competitions, which is announced on a large screen and completed by a notary.

The whole process is quick and easy. When the cursor stops on a letter among the twenty-six letters A to Z, the competition will be carried out in clockwise order of the letters, referring to the first letter of each player's last name.

The lottery ceremony was about to begin, and the competition scene gradually became quiet.

Sitting in the back row, Sun Yuman, Song Lian, Lao Chen, and Li An sat together in order from left to right.

"If you get a C, you have to go first?" Lao Chen asked Li An in a low voice.

Li An shook his head in a low voice: "There is an Italian player in front of her named Demondo Comandini. Even if he gets a C, this guy will go first. If the first letter of the last name is the same, who's name comes first."

Old Chen calculated slightly and found out that Xuan's initials were

Li An: "Yes, uncle, don't worry, I guess she will definitely be in the back."

Lao Chen felt relieved after hearing what Li An said, "It's not good to be too far back, right?"

How can I say this? From the perspective of the judges, Ang Lee believes that it is best to appear in the middle, because this is when the judges' attention is most concentrated.

From a player's point of view, it is best to play in the middle and back position, because the more players who have heard it, the more stable their mental state will be.

Of course, this is just his personal opinion. The most important thing is strength and luck.

When the strength is evenly matched, luck is the fatal factor that determines the outcome.

If by chance a certain judge is in a good mood today and wants to listen to a bright performance, then the player with a softer playing style will naturally not be favored by this judge.

In many cases, the difference is just a few tenths of a point, so sometimes there is some mystery involved in the results of art competitions.

"Yes," Li An of course had to follow the advice of his father-in-law-to-be, "it's easy to get tired if you play too far back, and your condition will wear off after a few hours."

Lao Chen nodded, praying in his heart that Che Xuan would draw a good lottery.
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  In a high-end community in Yanshi, Zhou Yaqiong was sitting in front of the computer in the study room, holding her mobile phone in one hand and holding her baby in the other.

On the computer screen, the bright stage was touching her heart.

People watching the game through big screens outside the scene were also discussing the draw.

Fang Zheng, who had just arrived at the concert hall on the eighth floor fifteen minutes ago, made a wave of analysis, which left everyone confused.

Wang Panpan couldn't stand it anymore, "Brother Zheng, just tell me the conclusion."

Fang Zheng: "Ahem, 8 to 11 is the golden order of appearance."

Wang Panpan: "Is there any difference between this and what I said?"

Fang Zheng: "It's still different."

Ma Tao, who had been silent all this time, then said, "I think so too."

Xu Hongxin: "Brother Tao, what do you think?"

Ma Tao: "It's just like the last time we visited the Liuli Market. When we entered Baocai, we wanted to buy the pair of pink cups. You said you weren't in a hurry and there must be more in the back. Then we kept looking around and ended up buying a pair of identical ones at the exit. .”

Xu Hongxin: "Don't tell me, Brother Tao gets perfect marks for this analysis."

Fang Zheng: "That's what I actually mean."

Everyone laughed, saying that they were all people who had participated in various competitions, but there had never been such an in-depth discussion on the issue of the order of appearance.

Wang Panpan prayed: "Sister Xuan will definitely get the lowest ranking!"

Fang Zheng: "Don't poison your milk."
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  Norton Hall, Classroom.

On the podium, Professor Martin was telling everyone how to practice the first volume of Hanon. Several other children in Piano Classroom No. [-] were sitting in the front row and listening carefully. Senior Sister Ji Yang had already hung up her headphones and started the live broadcast of the competition in the last row.

Seeing that the lottery ceremony was about to begin, Xiao Ji silently thought DDDDDDDD in his heart.

If you draw D, Sister Chen will be the last one to appear!

Xiao Ji had completely forgotten that if she got a D, her sister Chen's appearance time would conflict with Xiao Liu's concert in the evening.

At this moment, she only hopes that her sister Chen will make her final appearance.

At this moment, as the host's voice sounded in the headphones, a disk divided into twenty-six parts appeared on the phone screen, each part clearly marked with a letter.

I'm coming!

Xiao Ji could even feel the tense atmosphere from the noise in his headphones.

‘DDDDDDD! ! ’

Xiao Ji kept reading the barrage over and over again!

The host's voice fell, and the notary public pressed the draw button, and the disk on the screen began to rotate.

Xiao Ji held his breath and stared at the disk spinning faster and faster without blinking.

After about ten seconds, the speed of the disk's rotation gradually decreased.

Decay until only one letter can be passed in the last second.

'U'
  'V'
  'W'
  Don't stop! ! ! Looking at Yuanpan, who was almost stationary, Xiao Ji was about to shout.

'X'
  'Y'
  'Z'
  The disc stopped, and under everyone's gaze, the pointer pointed at 'Z'.

It seemed as if his eyesight went dark, Xiao Ji was so disgusted! It's better to stop early and stop on U.

Going clockwise, Z comes to A! B! C! !
  Backstage at the competition, Chen Xuan had no other reaction when she saw the result. It was time to get ready to go on stage.

Ye Xinyi on the side didn't know what to say when faced with such a result. After all, no one wanted to appear first, and according to the result of the lottery, she got the last choice to appear.

The order of appearance of the two is compared, and the superiority is determined.

"Sister."

Chen Xuan: "I'll be back with you later."

Ye Xinyi: "Come on, senior sister."

Chen Xuan smiled and nodded, then turned and went to the waiting practice room.
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  Yudong Concert Hall on the eighth floor.

Everyone was a little speechless at the result of such a draw.

Deng Shiqi: "Sister Xuan should be the third one to appear."

Fang Zheng: "At least not the first one."

Wang Panpan: "You are both right."

For some art candidates, this lottery result indicates that they will have to continue training at night.

As the host announced that the competition had officially begun, Carol Zevin, a male player from the United States, was the first to appear.

"Carol Zevon, born in Seattle in 2002."
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  To say who was slapped in the face the hardest, it was undoubtedly Teacher Li. Just now, I vowed to Lao Chen that Chen Xuan would definitely come in the back, but in the end, he appeared third.

Putting aside the slap in the face issue, this lottery is indeed very unfavorable for Chen Xuan right now.

Li An just made a careful calculation and found that the players who were ranked in front of Chen Xuan and advanced to the third round all played behind Chen Xuan in this round.

Hold on, hold on. At this moment, Li An just hopes that Chen Xuan will not be disturbed by the order of appearance.

There is still a chance. In Ang Lee's opinion, this Mozart piece should be regarded as the one for which Chen Xuan was most prepared among all the pieces.

Li An also believed that Chen Xuan had broken the demonic barrier in his heart (Volume 36, [-]), but even though he thought so in his heart, he couldn't help but feel worried about Chen Xuan.

After all, unlike when practicing this piece on weekdays, there is Teacher Xiao in the judges' box in the audience today.

Regarding the conflict of opinions between the teacher and student over the repertoire for the re-examination of the art exam, Ang Lee always felt that no one was at fault.

Teacher Xiao suggested that Chen Xuan play Ibel because of the exam results. Chen Xuan insisted on playing the music that she was more confident about because of the exam results.

Unfortunately, Chen Xuan did not perform this piece perfectly on the examination stage, and she was left with heartache.

The psychological shadow left on the stage must be broken on the stage after all. Come on, Teacher Xiaomi, Li An prayed in his heart and focused on the music in front of him.

Carol Zevin stepped over the line and entered the third round, and now he is the first to appear in the third round. It seems like there is some kind of providence.

Ang Lee had no impression of this player. Overall, it sounded pretty good, but he thought the details were far less skillful than Chen Xuan's handling.

He can draw this conclusion from the fact that the piano player has tried to push the music forward several times but failed. As a pianist and a pianist who has studied this piece specifically, Ang Lee can pat his chest and guarantee that if the piano player I have a bad temper like Teacher Wei, so I must have scolded my mother in my heart just now.

Can't move.

It was almost as expected by Ang Lee. In the third movement, Brother Zewen's rhythm began to fluctuate frequently, and finally there were three obvious wrong notes in the cadenza.

After finishing the performance, Brother Zewen put down his flute and wiped his sweat, stepped forward and bowed to the audience.

"Wow------"

The audience gave enthusiastic applause to the first contestant on stage today, Carol Zevin.

In the concert hall on the eighth floor of Yudong, Ma Tao raised a very informative question.

"What if some members of the audience applaud at the end of the second movement?"

Qin Yong: "There is a guide for watching the game, and people who can go to watch the game will not make such mistakes."

Fang Zheng: "I have never heard of such a thing in China, but I have experienced it several times abroad."

Ma Tao: “I thought they paid more attention to this issue than we did.”

Qin Yong: "That was all a deliberate act of applause."

Xu Hongxin: “It’s so fucked.”

Qin Yong smiled: "You still think so."

Wang Panpan: "The next one will be Sister Xuan."

As Brother Zevin left the stage, the host introduced the second contestant, "Demundo Comandini, born in Florence in 1996,"

Fang Zheng: "When I was in school, he came to our school to hold a concert. At that time, many girls came to see him."

Wang Panpan: "He is indeed handsome."

Fang Zheng: "That night he spent the night with a male classmate from our vocal music department. I remember it very clearly. That male classmate was a Polish man who sang tenor."

Xu Hongxin: "That high note must be very stable."

Wang Panpan: "."

Qin Yong: "."

Fortunately, Comandini didn't prepare for too long after taking the stage. He signaled the steel partner to get ready. The steel partner sounded and everyone's attention returned to the big screen.

The bright piano played, and Comandini, who was wearing an elegant black dress on the stage, was like a prince from a fairy tale. His deep eyes were embedded with two jasper gems, and with the all-gold flute in his hand, his whole body was... Exuding nobility and elegance.

After the steel accompaniment, the atmosphere was in place. At the moment when the downward statement of the motive was made in the thirty-first bar, Comandini played the flute for a while and played a perfect empty beat. Then he dropped the keys and breathed out a perfect backbeat D sound.

Then he raised his body slightly and made a delicate vibrato on the second D note.

Just the handling of the first two notes at the beginning, Comandini is already a level higher than Zevin.

The Allegro is bright and clear, and unknowingly, all the audience are brought into this Mozart prologue full of Italian style.
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  Lao Mo is a genius. Although he only composed two flute concertos in his life, one is Flute Concerto No. 313 in G major K314, and the other is the designated performance piece for this round, Flute Concerto in D major K[-], but both works have strong Mozart style.

This is completely different from the flute style of other composers.

Lao Mo's flute works have beautiful and smooth melodies, are optimistic and bright, and have very strong vitality. This makes his flute works stand proudly in the field of flute works.

In terms of melody, Lao Chai once praised Lao Mo's flute works as the notes of angels, especially this piece k314.

However, in fact, this piece K314 was not originally written by Mozart for flute.

On April 1777, 4, Lao Mo composed an oboe concerto in C major for the Salzburg oboist Giuseppe Ferentischa.

Later, forced to make a living, he copied it by himself and raised the oboe piece in C major by one key, turning it into a brand new flute piece.

It is estimated that even Lao Mo himself did not expect that many years after his death, this copy of the song that was "plagiarized" for the sake of livelihood would become a touchstone today to test whether modern flutists can live up to their reputation as performers.

Chen Xuan still clearly remembers that the first time she saw this piece was in a grade examination textbook. At that time, she had already won awards in many children's competitions.

When she saw this piece of music, she was attracted by the thirty-one bars at the front of the score. She had never seen a flute piece that was empty for so long at the beginning.

Immediately she took out the flute and played it. As soon as she played it, she found that it was very easy. She quickly practiced the first page.

After practicing, she went to see her cousin. After hearing this, her cousin smiled and told her that was not what she said in the beginning. Xiao Xiaomi was very unconvinced at the time.

After hearing what her cousin had said, she lowered her head in shame.

Her cousin told her, "Xiao Xuan, when you can play this piece well, you will be a flutist."

This was too shocking for Xiaomi at the time, and she excitedly shouted in a childish tone: "My sister is a performer!"

But the cousin shook her head and said, "Sister can't play this piece well."

She obviously boasts so well, so my cousin must be lying!
  Xiao Xiaomi said angrily: "Then I can't play this piece well either."

The cousin smiled and touched her head, "Xiaoxuan can play well."

As a child, Chen Xuan did not understand how difficult this piece of music was. When she understood how difficult this piece of music was, her cousin had already sealed the flute and put it away at the bottom of the cabinet.

Although Che Xuan didn't understand why her cousin stopped playing the flute at that time, she would never forget that evening.

When preparing for the art exam, she occasionally recalled the piece of D major that her cousin played for her one evening in her childhood.

Thinking of my cousin's smile.

I remember my cousin smiling and saying to her: "Xiao Xuan, when you can play this piece well, you will be a flutist."

She no longer had the youthful vigor she had during the art exam. Real life teaches people how to grow. When Chen Xuan once again stood at the entrance of the stage holding the flute and preparing to play Mozart's D major, her heart was no longer disturbed.